A customer counts out cash for a transaction at the Native Roots pot shop in Boulder County. Marijuana sales in Colorado are subject to the regular state sales tax of 2.9 percent. In addition, recreational sales are subject to a special 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax. (Daily Camera file)

Brooke Edwards Staggs, who covers the cannabis industry for The Orange County Register, joins Cannabist editor-in-chief Ricardo Baca on The Cannabist Show to give a breakdown of the campaign cash flooding both sides of that proposed measure.

“He has not done any interviews on why he is supporting the measure, but the campaign has said it’s strictly a social justice issue for him,” Skaggs said, referencing marijuana possession arrest rates and the disproportionate effect on minorities. “… They say he does not have any financial interest in the industry and doesn’t ever plan to. The research we’ve done, we haven’t been able to find any indication of that.”

The anti side includes a collection of public safety groups, correctional institutions, members of law enforcement and Smart Approaches to Marijuana, or Project SAM, which opposes recreational marijuana measures across the United States.